where I wholly love I wholly trust.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

Love is a great beautifier.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

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