there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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