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 I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

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.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

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.