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 seasons run with swift feet.

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

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.

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

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.