How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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