What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Rome is an astonishment!

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.