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

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.