the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.