Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.
Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
... the song of the world is all of love.
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
A bird is joy incarnate.
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
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