Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already. - Christopher Morley

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small — like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.