Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

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.