"Dispel not, the happy delusions of children...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One errs as long as one strives.”

“Art will always be art.”

“He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.”

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.”

“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”

“I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.”

“I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.”

“Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.”