Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.