To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?