Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

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

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.