Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.