she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.