Expedients are for the hour but principles are for the ages.

Author: Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are not men, and yet they stay alive.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.