The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

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.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.