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

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.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

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

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.