It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Power educates the potentate.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.