Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.