Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.