... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!