Things last so much longer than people.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.