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

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.