I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.