Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.