It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.