You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
Success is a great healer.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
A work well begun is half-ended.