The great trues are too important to be new.

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.