Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure