The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”