A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

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.

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

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

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!