I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.