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

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.