Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates Quotes

“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!”
― Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

“There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.”
― Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

“Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.”
― Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

“Latin, Arithmetic, Grammar, all were locked up for an hour in the dingy schoolroom. The teacher might be a noun if he wished, and a proper one at that, but they meant to enjoy themselves. As long as skating was as perfect as this, it made no difference whether Holland were on the North Pole or the Equator; and, as for Philosophy, how could they bother themselves about inertia and gravitation and such things, when it was as much as they could do to keep from getting knocked over in the commotion.”
― Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

“a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful,”
― Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates