the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

- Marjorie Holmes

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

- Marjorie Holmes

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

- Marjorie Holmes

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Chr…

- Marjorie Holmes

What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a r…

- Marjorie Holmes

Death is the perfect knowing.

- Marjorie Holmes

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some …

- Marjorie Holmes

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

- Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

- Marjorie Holmes