There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

I hope, or I could not live.

We must end war before war ends us.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done