Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.