The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.