And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

The victory's in believing.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.