There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

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

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.