There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

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

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.