“Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.”
Source: Mother Stories
“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”
Source: A story garden for little children
“Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.”
Source: Mother Stories
“Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.”
Source: A story garden for little children
“We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss.”
Source: Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Art of Waiting
“Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.”
Source: Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
“For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London
“Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.”
“Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London
“That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London