The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.