“He was stubborn as a mule, clever as a monkey, and nimble as a hare.”

“And to think that when we grow up we may be as stupid as they are!”

“He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......”

“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”

“When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.”

“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss”

“He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.”