Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

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.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!