Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

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!

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.