Money was their God; work their religion.

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

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

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

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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

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.