Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.