But, Of Course Only Morons Would Ever

There Is No Monster More Destructive Than The Inventive Mind That Has Outstripped Philosophy.

Nothing Is More Consuming, Or More Illogical, Than The Desire For Remembrance.

Surely One Of The Peculiar Habits Of Circumstances Is The Way They Follow, In Their Eternal Recurrence, A Single Course. If An Event Happens Once In A Life, It May Be Depended Upon To Repeat Later Its General Design.

One Cannot Lay A Foundation By Scattering Stones, Nor Is A Reputation For Good Work To Be Got By Strewing Volumes About The World.

I Have Written Chiefly Because, Though I Have Often Dreaded The Necessity, I Have Found It More Painful, In The End, Not To Write.