Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

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.

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.