The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Nature always levies her tribute.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.