Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.