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

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

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

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.

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

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.