Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.