Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.