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

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

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.

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