I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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.

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