It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.