A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.