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.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

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

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

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.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.