It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

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.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.