Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I like good strong words that mean something.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.