229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.

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

Pa took her hand and comforted it in his big one. He said, “We must do the best we can, Laura, and not grumble. What must be done is best done cheerfully.

They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

Where a light can’t live, I know I can’t.

Down a long road through the woods a little boy trudged to school, with his big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. Royal was thirteen years old, Eliza Jane was twelve, and Alice was ten. Almanzo was the youngest of all, and this was his first going-to-school, because he was not quite nine years old.

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 while.

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.

There’s no great loss without some small gain.