When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

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.

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

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.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.