Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.