If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.