No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.
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.
Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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.