To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.