Gene Stratton-Porter

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Nature always levies her tribute.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Mother was little but she was mighty.”

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Money was their God; work their religion.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

The seasons run with swift feet.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

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

— Gene Stratton-Porter

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

— Gene Stratton-Porter

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

— Gene Stratton-Porter

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

— Gene Stratton-Porter

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

— 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

“He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.”

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“I believe the best way to get an answer to prayer is to work for it,”

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart—this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“What you have to give is taught in no college, and I am not sure but you would spoil yourself if you…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

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

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“whose early life had been so embittered by continual proof of neglect and cruelty in human parents toward their children, the love…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Billy moved restlessly. "Seems like-seems like- towards night as if a body got kind o' lonesome for a woman person-like her." Billy…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Love her?" I cried. "Why he just loves her to death! He turns so white, and he suffers so, when her pain…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“The next time any of you are called upon to address a body of men tell them to learn for themselves and…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbour, believe me, my highest aspiration is…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Mother Duncan, do kisses wash off?……"Lord, na! Freckles," she cried. "At least, the anes ye get from people ye love dinna. They…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“...It was never meant for a human being to be so solitary. He'd get touched in the head if he hadna them…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“My, I was scared!" Said Billy with a deep breath. Scared?" Questioned Elnora. Yes, sir-ee! Aunt Margaret scared me. May i ask…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“...Wrapped in the overcoat, he dropped on the seat and faced the eternal verities of sky and sea. No land was intruding.…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“You haven't said yet weather I may help you while I am here" Elnora hesitated. You better say 'yes,'" he persisted. It…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“That month he developed the habit every night of picking up the Bible the last thing before he went to bed and…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“A lady must be born of unsullied blood for at least three generations, on each side of her house. Think for a…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“My mother was the best and most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was clean, and good, and always helped "the poor…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“When it grew cold enough to shut the doors, and have fire at night, first thing after supper all of us helped…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“He swore by all that he ever had loved and reverenced that he would try, try with all his might in the…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

— Gene Stratton-Porter