The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.