There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.