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.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.