Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

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

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

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.