Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.