There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.

If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!

World vision is getting on your heart what has always been on God's heart.

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

I thought my teeth were white until I washed my face with Noxzema. My teeth are off-white. I'm not even white. I'm off-white. It's a new race; we will prevail!

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.