Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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.

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

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.