We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.