The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.