A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.