Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.