There is no running away from a great grief.

There is no running away from a great grief.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.