Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

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.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

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

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.