There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.