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

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

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

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.

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.