I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.