The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.