I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.