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

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 is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.

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

One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

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.

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