“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
More from Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
“So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.”
“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes…”