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.

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.