I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.