The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.