This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other...

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden–very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain–full of...

The Piper is coming nearer,” he said, “he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes – he pipes – and we...

…Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if...

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would...

…I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

Oh, of course there’s a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it’s all said and done, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

If you buy your experience it’s your own. So it’s no matter how much you pay for it.

Isn’t it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing…

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ,” parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Oh, here we are at the bridge. I’m going to shut my eyes tight. I’m always afraid going over bridges. I can’t help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they’ll crumple...

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

Bukan kegagalan yang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal.

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and...