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.

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

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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.

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.