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

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.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.