The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

The living have never shown me how to live.