What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

The first hundred years are the hardest.