I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.