Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.