"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in capt…"

"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike…"

"There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through y…"

"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."

"The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west,…"

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wid…"

"Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and conc…"

"He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent…"

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