She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.