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

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.