the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.