An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.