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.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception