Quotes from Gene Stratton-Porter

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

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

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, God knows.

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

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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 piece of furniture.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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.

Money was their God; work their religion.