Money was their God; work their religion.

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.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

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

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