Quotes from Carolyn Wells

On account of disastrous losses in Wall Street that morning, I had determined to kill myself. I'm not of much account, any way, and I was desperate. I knew Uncle Robert would give me no money to repay my stock losses, for he always thought speculation no better than any other sort of gambling—and it isn't.

One never knows what difference anything will make until the difference is made.

American author and poet. She wrote a total of more than 170 books.

She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour.

By the way, remember that, all of you. On no account go up to the fourth floor.

This henbane was used, in this very manner, we are told, in Shakespeare's works, by Hamlet's uncle, when he poisoned Hamlet's father.

Tracy's eyes were deeply sorrowful, and his face expressed a sort of awed wonder, that made many who were present, think that after all there might be something in these occult beliefs. But not so the coroner. He refused to consider the Ouija message with any serious interest, and continued to ply his witnesses with questions both pertinent and wide of the mark. Elijah Stebbins was put through a grilling inquiry

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.