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

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.