Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.