There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.