I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?