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

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

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

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.