The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost Wilis.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Show me a community or a country where all the minor vices are discouraged and I will show you one bereft of major virtues.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

They are so small and so helpless that they contribute vastly to a comforting glow in the ego of the grown-up.

There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways of holding a baby-and all are right.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favor of things which seem at some given moment more vital.

History is largely concerned with arranging good entrances for people; and later exits not always quite so good.