Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.