But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

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

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

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