In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Tight pants are just uncomfortable.