The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

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

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.