Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

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!

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

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

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.