Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?