Booth Tarkington

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ”

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ”

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ”

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. ”