Quotes from Kate Douglas Wiggin

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 where he had made his morning toilet.

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

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

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

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

Hush"Robinetta answered, putting a finger on his lip; it isn't a question of how great you are or how wonderful: it is a question of what we can be to each other.

To become sensible of oneness with the Divine heart before any sense of separation has been felt, this is surely the most beautiful way for the child to find God.

Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining. Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off and their rough surfaces polished, but in the strife and warfare of running waters. They have jostled against other pebbles, dashed against sharp rocks, and now we look at them and call them beautiful.

He is wrong; my talent is not a great one, but no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin. Remember that of your own gifts, Rebecca; they may not be praised of men, but they may cheer, console, inspire, perhaps, when and where you least expect. The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.

Casarse con un marqués o con un conde resultaría de lo más romántico, pero, ¿no ha de ser un consuelo para dos personas echar la vista atrás hacia un mismo pasado?

To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.

Minnie had spasms of bravery, when well surrounded by the machinery of law and order.

Rebecca's eyes were like faith,—the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

for whether she knows anything or not, she looks as if she did, and whether she's capable of filling an office or not, she looks as if she was.

Those tears were jewels to crown the heart of any singer, and I shall never forget them.

It was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.

I don't expect you to believe it, but I have another idea—that's two in one day;

You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher? Oh no! Mrs Carey remarked with a smile, I am just a mother- that's all!

no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin.

Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret.

cast their babes to the crocodiles in the Ganges.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

Not all at once can the soul talk with God, be He ever so near.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.