I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.