When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.