The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

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

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

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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.

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

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.