I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

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.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

…men never forgive like women.