Anti-theses.- The Most Senile Thing Ever Thought

One Often Contradicts An Opinion When What Is Uncongenial Is Really The Tone In Which It Was Conveyed.

We Are Doubly Willing To Jump Into The Water After Some One Who Has Fallen In, If There Are People Present Who Have Not The Courage To Do So.

On Every Parable You Ride To Every Truth.

The Hour-hand Of Life --- Life Consists Of Rare, Isolated Moments Of The Greatest Significance, And Of Innumerably Many Intervals, During Which At Best The Silhouettes Of Those Moments Hover About Us. Love, Springtime, Every Beautiful Melody, Mountains, The Moon, The Sea - All These Speak Completely To The Heart But Once, If In Fact They Ever Do Get A Chance To Speak Completely. For Many Men Do Not Have Those Moments At All, And Are Themselves Intervals And Intermissions In The Symphony Of Real Life.

What Is Genius?- To Aspire To A Lofty Aim And To Will The Means To That Aim.