Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.