It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.