Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.