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 Christmas-time.

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.