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

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

The prayers of all good people are good.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.