I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
My friends are my estate.