The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.