Fifteen takes its perplexities very seriously and grieves wihout restraint over its sorrows. - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.