“There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.”

“That's the difference between us {the poor} and them {the rich}, I thought. We know all of what's bad because we can't keep from it. They live in their big houses and the walls are thick enough around them to keep the bad out.”

“Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.”

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.”