Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.