Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 24, 1862 Death: August 11, 1937
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one'….
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time..
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope..
I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was to….
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears..
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits..
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!.
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care..
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day..
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions..
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassail….
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways..
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you m….
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in ….
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any..
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions..
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it..
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins..
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are..
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech..
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it..