“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”