It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capa….

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they sp….

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet..

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of P….

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet..

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner..

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us….

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own..

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do..

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends..

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of t….

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love..

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient..

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little ….

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill..

each separate flower has a magic all its own..

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I w….

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong,….

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word..

I've always thought my flowers had souls..

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have..