It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.