Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.