She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

America is a willingness of the heart.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.