In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Pedestals are always lonely.