Quotations

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
—Phillips Brooks

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
—Fred Allen