I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.