The land belongs to the future.

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

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

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.