The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.