She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it