Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.