The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.