It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?