“Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.”

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

“Our costliest expenditure is time.”

“Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.”

“It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; SophoclesWrote his grand Oedipus, and SimonidesBore off the prize of verse from his compeers,When each had numbered more than fourscore years,And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,Had but begun his Characters of Men.Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,Completed Faust when eighty years were past,These are indeed exceptions; but they showHow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flowInto the arctic regions of our lives.Where little else than life itself survives.”

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”