When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

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!

Information can be such a double-edged sword.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.