I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.