Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

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.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.