I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

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

Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?