Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.