There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.