I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.