“So he is my brother, and yours, too, Carl Schummel, for that matter," answered Peter, looking into Carl's eye. "We cannot say what we might have become under other circumstances. We have been bolstered up from evil since the hour we were born. A happy home and good parents might have made that man a fine fellow instead of what he is. God grant that the law may cure and not crush him!”
Quotes by Mary Mapes Dodge
“There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.”
“Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.”
Mary Mapes DodgeMary Mapes Dodge was a pioneering American children's author and editor, renowned for her influential novel, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, which introduced readers to Dutch culture and the spiri...