I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

I am simply a book drunkard.

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.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

All things great are wound up with all things little.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.