If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

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.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.