There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
I am simply a book drunkard.
I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.
Walter’s eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
The woods are never solitary – they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because – because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
She wanted to be alone – to think things out – to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that ’this, too, will pass away.
Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
In everything you do, aim to excel, for what is worth doing is worth doing well.
A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.