A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.