There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!