On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be.

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Superstition is a senseless fear of God.

"There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Dollars to Doughnuts.

This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.