You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

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.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.