I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

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

How I hate everything!

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.