It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.