There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.