But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.