In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!