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

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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…

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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, …

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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…

- Kate Douglas Wiggin