The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.