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

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

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

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

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.

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