there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.