The Difference Between Gossip And Philosophy Lies

The Very Minute A Thought Is Threatened With Publicity It Seems To Shrink Towards Mediocrity.

Be Willing To Commit Yourself To A Course, Perhaps A Long And Hard One, Without Being Able To Foresee Exactly Where You Will Come Out.

Young Men Know The Rules, But Old Men Know The Exceptions.

As For The Excellent Little Wretches Who Grow Up In What They Are Taught, With Never A Scruple Or A Query, ... They Signify Nothing In The Intellectual Life Of The Race.

To Be Master Of Any Branch Of Knowledge, You Must Master Those Which Lie Next To It, And Thus To Know Anything You Must Know All.