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

One is oneself a fine consequence.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.