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

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

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

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

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