The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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

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

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.