To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.