[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

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

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

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.