War makes good history but peace is poor reading..

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse..

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity..

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length..

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened..

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst..

And yet to every bad there is a worse..

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die..

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good ….

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger..

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away..

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid..

Some folk want their luck buttered..

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things..

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change..

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him..

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain..

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's….

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes..

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature..