“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”

“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.”

“Old age is the verdict of life.”

“It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”

“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”

“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accom...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”