Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

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

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.

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

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