Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.