Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.