Knowledge, or more expressively truth, – for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, – truth is an ideal whole.

You just cant predict baseball.

Every man’s follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought, – whither it flows back again.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she’s beautiful.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.