We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.