It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.