Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.