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

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

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

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

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.

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.