When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.