Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

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

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

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.