Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Some promises and time disappoint us

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.