Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

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

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

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

There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.

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!

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.