Money was their God; work their religion.

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

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.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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

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