Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.