Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.