Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.