How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Giving is the business of the rich.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

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