The world we live in is but thickened light.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

A man is a god in ruins.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.