I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.