"Every man is an impossibility until he..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

“Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.”

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”

“Being is the great explainer.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.”

“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”

“Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down”