Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

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

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.