Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?

~ Jetta Carleton

Jetta Carleton Aging Family Inspirational Reminiscing

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

~ Jetta Carleton

Jetta Carleton Confidence Conviction Egotism Inspirational

One can repent of a sin and have done with it, but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.

~ Jetta Carleton

Jetta Carleton Foolishness Regret Sin