Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!