The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

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

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.