Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.