Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "Home Home at last!"

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Your big scary husband is crying.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.