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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

A few italics really do relieve your feelings.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ...

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

If I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

It doesn't take long to stay an hour.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ...

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.