Quotes

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was a mood.

The pigeon-house pleased her. It at once assumed the intimate character of a home.

She was just having a good cry all to herself.

It is a thing that no one can explain or understand unless you are a woman who has felt it.

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

There are some people who are not affected by the ordinary cares of life.

I would like to be an ordinary woman with a ordinary life. But I am not.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume.

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, inviting the soul to wander.