It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.