We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Fortune befriends the bold.
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.