Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that req….

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones..

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery….

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole..

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everyb….

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun cam….

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!.

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. Bu….

He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't b….

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation..

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curios….

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back….

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and u….

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them..

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying….

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way..

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains..

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, ….

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late ….

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving..