Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.