No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.