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

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

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

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.