Home is the nicest word there is.

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

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

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

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

There's no great loss without some small gain.