My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.