The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed. - Thornton Wilder

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.