There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.