God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children — Rachel Carson
We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. — Richard Aldington
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend — George MacDonald
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. — Minna Antrim