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.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

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

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

Money was their God; work their religion.

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

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.