Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

There is no thermometer for wants!

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.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

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.