Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

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

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

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

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.

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.