Success is never so interesting as struggle

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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

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.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.