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.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

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