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.

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.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.