What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.