When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.