Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Isolation breeds conceit.