I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

Near a war is always not very near.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.