The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

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.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

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

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

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

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