...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.