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..

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

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

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

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….

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

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, ….

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….

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

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

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

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

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named..

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 ….

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

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility..

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..

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

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 world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time….

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