I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

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

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

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

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.