What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

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.

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

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.