There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.