“A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth”

“Има мълчание от велика ненависти мълчание от велика любовИ мълчание на дълбок душевен покой ,И мълчанието на приятелствотопреродило се в дълбока ненавист...Има мълчание на невинно наказаните,И мълчанието на умиращия,ръката на когото внезапно стиска твоята..Има мълчание между сина и бащата,когато той не може да му обясни своя животмакар,че неумението му да обяснявае неговата трагедияИма мълчание,когато мъжът и женатаняма какво да си кажат един на друг...Има мълчание на загиналите в устреми плътното мълчание,което обгръщасломените нации и победените Вождове...А ето мълчанието на Линколн,мислещ за своите млади години,минали в разбити надежди...И мълчанието на Наполеон след Ватерлоо...”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.”

“If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..........”

“Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”