It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.