Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.