Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

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

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.