There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

In love, you pay as you leave.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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