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

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

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

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.

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

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

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.