I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

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.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

How very wet this water is.

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.