I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

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

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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.