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I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. {Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading...

Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran...

Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?

So to the end when life's dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

God hates a coward.I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for.

Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.

Rome was not built in a day. Likewise a railroad. Or other fun things in this life. - Charles Ingalls

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.

Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.

Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt.

That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm...

I am here to posit that it's exactly in these moments of struggle and stress that we need books the most. There's something in the pause to read that's soothing in and of itself. A moment with a book...

Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

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.

In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don't you have bigger things to do? Reading, let alone re-reading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey...

Every war is more or less a woman's war.

It can't beat us! Pa said.Can't it, Pa? Laura asked stupidly.No, said Pa. It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up.Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very...

A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but...

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters.

We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer...

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light, Ma considered. We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of.That's so, said Pa. These times...

Never bet your money on another man's game.

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

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

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...