E. W. Howe

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.