What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.
What were habitually his final meditations? Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
To learn one must be humble.
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
