Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.