I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

“Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.”

“Beauty you lifted up my sleeping eye And filled my heart with longing with a lo…”

“Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.”

“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangst…”