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

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

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.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.