It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.