Quotes from Odell Shepard

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Like most of my predecessors, I have hunted the unicorn chiefly in libraries, realizing the delightful absurdity of the task quite as fully as any one could point it out to me.