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

Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

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.

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.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

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