Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.