Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden..

Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, ….

It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I woul….

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know..

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those ….

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out….

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in ….

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old..

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings..

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature..

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life..

...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. The….