If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it..

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in childr….

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues..

There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches n….

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, ….

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is..

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood..

Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated w….

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed..

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life..

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating..

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon..

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong..

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so..

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her ba….

Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensic….

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, ….

One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from….

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with..