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….

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..

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

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

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

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..

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….