Life begins at eighty.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

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

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.