When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.