Bessie-isms:

*Adults curse snow and blizzards as annoying interruptions of life. Children see them as the greatest of opportunities to play. Perhaps you should listen to their wisdom about this?

*You hope your siblings will be less annoying and a greater joy in adulthood. You’re usually wrong.

Quotable:

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are.

S. Chamfort