To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.

In every man there is something of all men.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'