I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.