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

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

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

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.