Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.