We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.