Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.