The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.