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.

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

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

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.

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

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

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.