If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

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

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

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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