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.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

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.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

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.