The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.