It takes a small town to keep you humble..

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like th….

Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hu….

Things last so much longer than people..

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy..

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work..

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal..

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low..

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime..

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever..

I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it….

For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the brigh….

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the ….

Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever ….

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon ….

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark pas….

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication..

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth..

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart..

Love is the light that you see by..

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal..