“... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.”

“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.”

“How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.”

“Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.”

“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.”

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

“Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid.”