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

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

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

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

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

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.