If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

Time itself comes in drops.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.