Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

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.

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

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.