...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.