To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest!” — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
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 with it… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk? — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
![“[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair of her own. She seldom did wrong, in her own opinion, because the moment she entertained an idea it at once became right, her vanity serving as a pair of…” quote by Kate Douglas Wiggin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e91/kate-douglas-wiggin-17367_wisdom_julia-carey-had-never-even-when-very-you_577519.jpg)
