Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.