Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

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.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

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

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.