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.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

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

Money was their God; work their religion.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

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.

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