Days on the Road Quotes

“Had earth no thorns among its flowers, And life no fount of tears, We might forget our better home Beyond this vale of tears.”
― Sarah Raymond Herndon, Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

“How easy to step off into eternity from this place. I would not like to live near here, lest I might be tempted to do it some time.”
― Sarah Raymond Herndon, Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865