We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.