You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!