Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.