Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.