It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
Gene Stratton-Porterwe know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
Gene Stratton-PorterThe wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
Gene Stratton-PorterThere 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.
Gene Stratton-Porter