I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

nobody ever intends to be old.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!