I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?