Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.