The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Everything that people say is testable.

Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not!

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.