Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.