Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.