Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?