But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.