Bessie-isms:

*Just because a child or adult is smiling or laughing, don’t assume they are happy. Laughter is often a cover for loneliness and misery, not a declaration of joy.

*You hear real history from your older relatives each time they speak of their life and childhood. Listen to them! No book will ever give you such an education.

Quotable:

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child, and keep them in comfort than I have ever seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats