The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

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

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.