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.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

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.

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

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

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.