Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

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.

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

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

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.