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

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

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

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.