The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.