Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.