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.
Kate Douglas WigginIt 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.
Kate Douglas WigginIt 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.
Kate Douglas WigginWhy is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Kate Douglas Wiggin