Audrey Cole

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
― Norman Douglas