Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.