I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

There is no running away from a great grief.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.