Little House Books Quotes

“Ambition is, like other good things[.] a good only when use in moderation. It has worked great good for the world, and great evil also.
[Ale]xander is an example of a man completely carried away by ambition: so much so that when he had conquered the whole world (which one would suppose was enough to satisfy ambition); he wept because there were no more world to conquer.
Ambition is a good servant, but a hard master; and if you think it is likely to become your master: I would say to you in the words of the immortals Shakespeare: 'Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

“Clara Webber commented on the bond that "Wilder people" forge: " I always instantly like any admirer of the Little House books!”
― William Anderson, The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I think there are always compensations. The trouble is we do not recognize them. We usually are so busily longing for things we can't have that we overlook what we have in their place, that is even more worth while. Sometimes we realize our happiness only by comparison after we have lost it. It really appears to be true that,
To appreciate Heaven well
A man must have some 15 minutes of Hell.

Laura Ingalls Wilder; The Farm Home (13) , November 20, 1919”
― Stephen W. Hines, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks