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

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.