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

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Home is the nicest word there is.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

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

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