Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

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.

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.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

It's lovely to see people so happy.