The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

The world belongs to the discontented.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.