"Some very fine day/ I will step up your way,/ At least, if so you agree./ With two tales I've been writing, full of m…"

"Three thousand dollars would certainly have bought a house in Knoxville...I want my chestnuts off a higher bough. (in…"

"I hate & detest love stories, but it seems that you must have their grinning sentimental skeletons to hang your respe…"

"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed wh…"

"If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dress…"

"[T]o be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people."

"Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have lea…"

"“Eh!” she said, “but you are like an old woman. Don’t you care?” “It doesn’t matter,” said Mary, “whether I care or n…"

"So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself,…"

"In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from t…"