Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.