The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.

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

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.