In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.