the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great… — 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
“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
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
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share
“[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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share
One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share
