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

- Odell Shepard

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…

- Odell Shepard

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…

- Odell Shepard

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

- Odell Shepard

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

- Odell Shepard

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.

- Odell Shepard

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.

- Odell Shepard