It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in

Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . .

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.