Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Believe the best of everybody.