When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.