Quotes by Emily Dickinson

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

"I dwell in possibility."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

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

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Fortune befriends the bold."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

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

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

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"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."