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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

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

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

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

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.

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.