I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

Just always be waiting for me.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.