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.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.