It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.