It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.