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

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

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.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

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.

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.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.