Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

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