The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.