J. J. Ingalls Quotes

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

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.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

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

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

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.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

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

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

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

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.

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

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

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.

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

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

Let your joy scream across the pain.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I answer not, and I return no more.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

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

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.

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

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.