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

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

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.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.