I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

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.