It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.