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

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

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.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.