A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.