The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.