October 29, 1909
Yesterday I invested some money for Marie, Blanche and myself in unit values of the building that is being erected by a Trustee Company, at the corner of Washington and Montgomery Streets, for the Union Trust Company of New-Jersey.
Few things are more interesting than the building of a building. Whether the builder is wise or otherwise, he has achieved something of consequence and unlimited possibilities. If it stands long enough, and you envisage it rightly, you may read therein the secrets of humanity, ay, the secrets of the universe.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Genius......considered
October 28, 1909
Of the normal man perhaps an approximate estimate will do: it may satisfy the normal mind, even should it be not very close or just; but of those rare natures or beings whom genius has touched or possessed, let only seasoned and subtle minds consider.
Of the normal man perhaps an approximate estimate will do: it may satisfy the normal mind, even should it be not very close or just; but of those rare natures or beings whom genius has touched or possessed, let only seasoned and subtle minds consider.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Philosophy, chestnuts, and time...
October 21, 1909
To be great, to be lonely, to be unguessed at -perhaps that is not such an enviable lot; perhaps the lot of the ordinary man who takes things as they are, who faces life as it is, who accepts surface values undisturbed by the soul or oversoul -perhaps it is he who gets the best of it, the best satisfactions, the happiness and well-being that this earth is calculated to yield. It may yield other things along with some bitterness to the seer. Yet while here don't throw your clubs too high, if you want to bring down chestnuts. Hereafter we shall have plenty of time to play at charades, visions and dreams.
To be great, to be lonely, to be unguessed at -perhaps that is not such an enviable lot; perhaps the lot of the ordinary man who takes things as they are, who faces life as it is, who accepts surface values undisturbed by the soul or oversoul -perhaps it is he who gets the best of it, the best satisfactions, the happiness and well-being that this earth is calculated to yield. It may yield other things along with some bitterness to the seer. Yet while here don't throw your clubs too high, if you want to bring down chestnuts. Hereafter we shall have plenty of time to play at charades, visions and dreams.
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