In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.