It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.