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

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.

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.

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

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

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.