"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."

"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."

"Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along."

"Prejudice is ignorance."

"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."

"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."

"The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got."

"Be contented when you have got all you want."

"How do you like that guy? Can't run six balls and he's President of the United States."

"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."

"[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."