Strength and skill are happy comrades.

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

Tis the mind must guide the hand.

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.