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 go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

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.

Let your joy scream across the pain.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.