A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

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.

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.