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

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

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

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

I 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.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.