I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
... we always love best the people who need us.
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.