I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that’s sort of insulting to me. Or Dear Mr. Rich-Man, but that’s insulting to you. But at least you will stay tall all your life! So I’ve decided to call you Dear Daddy- Long-Legs. I hope you won’t mind
"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
"Time is only a kind of Space."
"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
"Our lives are one masked ball."
"There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find a develop it."
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise."
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
"“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on."""
"“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”