My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

death is always sudden however long one waits.

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.