Sarah Dunsbee

“It is a horrible thing, money. But it is also horrible to be the only one who hasn't got any. One of my chief complaints against people
has always been that they had no respect for animals. But many people have a great respect for money. Animals with bank accounts of their own will be in a position to insist upon respect.”
― Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle Stories

“She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Things are as they are, and no amount of self-deception makes them otherwise. The friend who is incapable of depression depresses us as surely as the friend who is incapable of boredom bores us. Somewhere in our hearts is a strong, though dimly understood, desire to face realities, and to measure consequences, to have done with the fatigue of pretending. It is not optimism to enjoy the view when one is treed by a bull; it is philosophy. The optimist would say that being treed was a valuable experience. The disciple of gladness would say it was a pleasurable sensation. The Christian Scientist would say there was no bull, though remaining–if he were wise–on the tree-top. The philosopher would make the best of a bad job, and seek what compensation he could find.”
― Agnes Repplier, Points of Friction

“But so it is. We often strive for the unattainable, and pass our greatest blessings by with indifference.”
― Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett