We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.