It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.