"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long."

"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"

"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

"Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet."

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

"Only the madman is absolutely sure."

"Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back."

"Death is the beginning of immortality."