The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.