It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.