To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.