Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.