I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious…

- Mary Mapes Dodge

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, S…

- Mary Mapes Dodge