Alice Meynell — English Poet born on September 22, 1847, died on November 27, 1922

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet... (wikipedia)

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.