On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.