“The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.”
Source: Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.”
Source: A Little House sampler
“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.”
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues
“The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“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.”
Source: Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Three: As Told By Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors
“We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“Vices are simply overworked virtues.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.”
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues