Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.