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.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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

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.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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