All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

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.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.