Children are certainly too good to be true.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?