If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?