There is no nature at an instant.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

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

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.