Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.