When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.