“It must be dreadful to be a grown-up if a party in an everydayish schoolroom could seem just as pleasant to you as a picnic”

“Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.”

“When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are -- more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story -- one after the other. It is queer.”

“If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.”

“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”

“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”