Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.