[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?