Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.