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

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.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

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

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.

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

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