Occupation: Author Birth: September 28, 1856 Death: August 24, 1923
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt….
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes ….
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a ….
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the….
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility..
If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to….
To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life..
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..
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, ….
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….
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….
Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong..
you can never prove God; you can only find Him!.
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..
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?.
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..
One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from….
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating..
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..