A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

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

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

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.