Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

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.