These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Life begins at eighty.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

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.

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