For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make..

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet..

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biol….

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeles….

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste….

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them..

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another..