John Kendrick Bangs quotes:

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!