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

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

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

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.

Money was their God; work their religion.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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