I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'