Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

New things are always ugly.

The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.