Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.
I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla.'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholes...
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, Mr. Carpenter had said once. Silence betrays.
If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.
Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.
…but youth yearned to youth.
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
Pride is cold company
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got so...
Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and neve...
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!
There be three gentle and goodlie things,To be here,
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.