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.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

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

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

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

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.