God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

The problem with education is school.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.