I don't believe he's even had a cold in five years.

You better go up to bed, papa." "Suppose something DID happen to him, though.

You don't know what it means, keepin' property together these days--just keepin' it ALIVE, let alone makin' it grow the way I do.

I've seen too many estates hacked away in chunks, big and little.

I tell you when a man dies the wolves come out o' the woods, pack after pack, to see what they can tear off for themselves; and if that dead man's chuldern ain't on the job, night and day, everything he built'll get carried off.