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.

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

Money was their God; work their religion.

The seasons run with swift feet.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.