There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.

Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.