Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fรชte. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.
Margaret Elizabeth SangsterOn the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
Margaret Elizabeth SangsterMind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster