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

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

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.

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

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.

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.

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