Quotes by 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."

"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."

"...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people..."