Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

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

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

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

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.