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

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

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

The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.