Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.