A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.