It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.