I see myself as a fish in a stream; deflected, held in place; but cannot describe the stream.

All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.

It struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?