The seasons run with swift feet..

What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere yo….

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success..

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any mo….

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself..

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful..

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose..

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead..

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured..

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as fath….

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life,….

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had ….

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor o….

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them..

There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could r….

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used..

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine pie….

Nature always levies her tribute..

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of….