Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

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.