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

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

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

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

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.

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