Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus

Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen