it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Money was their God; work their religion.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

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

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

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