You can't out-perform your self-image.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.