Almost Every Wise Saying Has

The Whole Machinery Of Our Intelligence, Our General Ideas And Laws, Fixed And External Objects, Principles, Persons, And Gods, Are So Many Symbolic, Algebraic Expressions. They Stand For Experience; Experience Which We Are Incapable Of Retaining And Surveying In Its Multitudinous Immediacy. We Should Flounder Hopelessly, Like The Animals, Did We Not Keep Ourselves Afloat And Direct Our Course By These Intellectual Devices. Theory Helps Us To Bear Our Ignorance Of Fact.

Before You Contradict An Old Man, My Fair Friend, You Should Endeavour To Understand Him.

If All Art Aspires To The Condition Of Music, All The Sciences Aspire To The Condition Of Mathematics.

The Difficult Is That Which Can Be Done Immediately; The Impossible That Which Takes A Little Longer.

Though The Heart Wear The Garment Of Its Sorrow And Be Not Happy Like A Naked Star, Yet From The Thought Of Peace Some Peace We Borrow, Some Rapture From The Rapture Felt Afar.