I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.