Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them. - Willa Cather

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas. (16 September 1902)

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.