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

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

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

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.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.