To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.