He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the busiest life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul Valery #7047 A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Forty is the old age of youth. Fifty is the youth of old age.

I see black light.