A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Pedestals are always lonely.