... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.