“Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWakened ecstasy ”

“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.”

“Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.”

“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”

“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.”

“Life is but thought.”

“Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.”

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

“Though I know he loves me tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.”

“I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.”

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”