"All substances the cunning chemist TimeMelts down..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.”

“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”

“There is always safety in valor.”

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.”

“To Time it never seems that he is braveTo set himself against the peaks of snowTo lay them level with the running wave,Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,But only grave, contemplative and grave.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”