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.

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

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

The seasons run with swift feet.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.