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.

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

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

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

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

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