Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.