Things last so much longer than people.

Love is the light that you see by.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

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

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

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.