Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes

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 more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

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.

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 when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

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 reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

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

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.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

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.

The seasons run with swift feet.

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

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

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

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

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