1. “Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream ?”
2. “Consider anything, only don’t cry !”
3. “Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.”
4. “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
5. “Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word !”
6. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently ?”
7. “They’ve a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they’re the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however.”
8. “When you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.”
