It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Life is moral responsibility.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.