“How fair the realmImagination opens to the view,”

“If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair.”

“It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.”

“A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”

“I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”

“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.”

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”