Booth Tarkington

"Justice must be blind to favor the innocent fairly."

"Patience is the strength of the wise."

"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence."

"True strength lies in gentleness and compassion."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"An ideal father is a man who has learned that his children have a right to their own point of view."

"Miracles are instantaneous; they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those waiting for them."

"The human animal began as a single cell in the ocean and is capable of becoming almost anything."

"To have a friend, one must be willing to be a friend."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind, as so many do at ten or twelve years of age, that here is his vocation."

"Work is the best cure for melancholy."

"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."

"A man's home is not his castle, it is his wife's."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bonds to one another."

"There is nothing in the world so important as to lose a friend through misunderstanding."

"Youth is what matters; youth, whose bright dreams seem to promise everything."

"Affection is a luxury, when love is a necessity."

"Art is not less moral than nature; it is as moral as it is possible for it to be."

"The true test of a man's character is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges."

"Beauty seen is never lost."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."

"Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home."

"The secret to contentment is wanting what you already have."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"We are troubled by nothing so much as the fear of appearing troubled."

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them arrogant is usually the reverse of the truth."

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"A man's real possession is his memory."