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.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

Ideas too are a life and a world.