Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

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

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.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.