Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and…

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Never bet your money on another man's game.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder