Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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

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

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

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

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.