Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.