People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.