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

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

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

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.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.

Let your joy scream across the pain.