In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.