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

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.