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.

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

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.