5 Quotes by Odell Shepard

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

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

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

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.

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.