The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.