Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.