The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
Gene Stratton-Porterthe friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.
Gene Stratton-PorterI 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.
Gene Stratton-PorterMy publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
Gene Stratton-Porter