The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.