Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
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?