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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

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There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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