Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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

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.

Money was their God; work their religion.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

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.