A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.