Money was their God; work their religion.

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

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.