You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

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

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.

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.

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!

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.