Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.