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

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

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.

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

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

There's no great loss without some small gain.