There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.