Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

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

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

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

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.

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.