We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
God hates a coward.I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for.
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
Ma! she cried. There is a Santa Claus, isn't there?Of course there's a Santa Claus, said Ma. The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus, she said. You are so big now, you know he can't be...
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?They are the days of a long time ago, Laura, Pa said. Go to sleep, now.But Laura lay awake a little whi...
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?They are the days of a long time ago, Laura, Pa said. Go to sleep, now.
They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but y...
Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using o...
It can't beat us! Pa said.Can't it, Pa? Laura asked stupidly.No, said Pa. It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up.Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very sm...
Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being t...
He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star
We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home.