The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
Vices are simply overworked virtues...
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women’s work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
Life begins at eighty.
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.
We start learning the minute we’re born, Laura. And if we’re wise, we don’t stop until the Lord calls us home.
It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.