Take Your Needle, My Child, And Work

The World's Great Men Have Not Commonly Been Great Scholars, Nor Its Great Scholars Great Men.

As We Grow Older We Think More And More Of Old Persons And Of Old Things And Places. As To Old Persons, It Seems As If We Never Know How Much They Have To Tell Until We Are Old Ourselves And They Have Been Gone Twenty Or Thirty Years. Once In A While We Come Upon Some Survivor Of His Or Her Generation That We Have Overlooked, And Feel As If We Had Recovered One Of The Lost Books Of Livy Or Fished Up The Golden Candlestick From The Ooze Of The Tiber.

The Man Who Is Always Worrying About Whether Or Not His Soul Would Be Damned Generally Has A Soul That Isn't Worth A Damn.

Apology Is Only Egotism Wrong Side Out.

Man Is Born A Predestined Idealist, For He Is Born To Act. To Act Is To Affirm The Worth Of An End, And To Persist In Affirming The Worth Of An End Is To Make An Ideal.