Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

I could have been a great many things.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.