The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

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

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

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

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.