Waiting for dead men's shoes! Dead men's shoes instead of shoes of one's own." "Dead men's shoes," muttered Hiram.
"The curse of unearned wealth," went on his friend.

"Your life, Hiram, leaves to your children the injunction to work, to labor cheerfully and equally, honestly and helpfully, with their brothers and sisters; but your wealth--If you leave it to them, will it not give that injunction the lie, will it not invite them to violate that injunction ?" "I have been watching my children, my boy, especially," said Hiram.

"I don't know about all this that you've been saying.

It's a big subject; but I do know about this boy of mine.

I wish I'd 'a' taken your advice, Mark, and put him in your school.