Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

The seasons run with swift feet.