When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.