People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

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