I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

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

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.