There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.