Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.