I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.