To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West