A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

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.

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

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.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!