“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.”

“Somedayyou will understandthat life can't flowas you always planned.”

“Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.”

“Been to yesterdays,lived through todays.Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays.The whys of life change,and so do ways,new scenery is built,to fill an empty stage.”

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

“Which of us is not saying to himself--which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”

“When Grandma read me:Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . .I neverknewthatHumpty'sfallwassomethingthatsomedaycomestousall.”