Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

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

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

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

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.