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.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

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

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.