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

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

Life begins at eighty.

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.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.