It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.