“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.” WorldChildrenSeemsValuesFallLosesPiecesMouthsFaultsFruitAppreciationTongueSheerFalling To Pieces Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
“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 deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!” IfsWritingProblemHandsSeemsCausesHavensMessagesPensAnxious Author: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 children.” PeopleChildrenSometimesSeemsCertainWorstTraitsOld PeopleMischievous Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin