At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought