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.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

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.

Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

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.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.