It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.