“Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.”

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Till I loved I never lived.

The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

I have an appetite for silence.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The Soul selects her own Society.

What goes up must come down.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

You can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me

You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.

In the end, we are our choices.