Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.