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.

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.

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

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

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

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

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