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

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

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

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

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

- Odell Shepard