Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.