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 …

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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

- Gene Stratton-Porter

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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,…

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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…

- Gene Stratton-Porter

Nature always levies her tribute.

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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

- Gene Stratton-Porter

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.

- Gene Stratton-Porter