Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

What you are lies with you. 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, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

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

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.