Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

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

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.