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

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

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.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.