It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.