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

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

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

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?