That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.