Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.