The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.