Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.
Category Archive: Mary Ellen Chase
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it’s all for.