Mary Hunter Austin

“There are speech manners, in the same way that there are table manners.”

“For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”

“This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.”

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”

“The life of prophecy is a constant possibility.”

“The business of the artist is to make a place where the soul can live.”

“A man is a fool who complains that he cannot enter a closed door, but a greater fool is he who will not enter an open one.”

“If you have any doubt about your greatness, ask a flea to bite you.”

“Woman is the custodian of the life force. She is the priestess of the racial mysteries.”