The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
Margaret DelandTwenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
Margaret DelandTo talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
Margaret Deland