Money was their God; work their religion.
You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.
the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.
The seasons run with swift feet.
a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.