“Fortune befriends the bold.” 

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.” 

“The only secret people keep is immortality.” 

“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.” 

“We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.” 

“I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!” 

“I like a look of agony, because I know it's true” 

“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies” 

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” 

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” 

“Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.” 

“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” 

“I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.” 

“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.” 

“Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the dandelions, make a sorry figure in a drawing room.” 

“Earth is crammed with Heaven.” 

“I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear.” 

“Forever is composed of nows.” 

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

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” 

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

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

“I tasted life.” 

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?” 

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.” 

“To be alive──is Power.” 

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” 

“open me carefully” 

“To shut your eyes is to travel.” 

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

“The Soul selects her own Society.” 

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” 

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” 

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” 

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care” 

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.” 

“Till I loved I never lived.” 

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.” 

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” 

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.” 

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” 

“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.” 

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.” 

“Judge tenderly of me.” 

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?” 

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.” 

“My friends are my estate.” 

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.” 

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.” 

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”