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

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

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.