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

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

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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

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.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.