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

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

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

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

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.