Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
