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.

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

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Money was their God; work their religion.

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

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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception