The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.