A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.