In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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.

Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.