It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?