The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.