A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

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.

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