One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.