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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

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

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

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

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

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.