Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.