What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
Dorothy Canfield FisherOne of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherit was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.
Dorothy Canfield FisherA mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherone reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher